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Yet Another Retired Judge Rejects Frivolous Claims About The Profit, and Its Lead Talent Marcus Lemonis, and Awards Camping World Subsidiary Nearly $5M in Damages and $4.5M in Attorneys’ Fees and Costs

By: Camping World via Business Wire

July 14, 2025 at 07:30 AM EDT

Multi-Million Award Confirmed By Los Angeles Superior Court Judge

Camping World, Inc. and FreedomRoads Holding Company, LLC, subsidiaries of Camping World Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CWH), won a total victory in the latest legal proceeding arising out of the unscripted television series on CNBC, The Profit. The case was brought by tiny home manufacturer and participants on The Profit, Tumbleweed Tiny Homes, and its CEO Steve Weissmann, who is personally liable to FreedomRoads for $4.1M in damages, and to Camping World, FreedomRoads, and Marcus Lemonis for nearly $4.5M in attorneys’ fees and costs.

Arbitrator Hon. Candace Cooper (Ret.) found Tumbleweed and Weissmann liable for their failure to pay back loans they took from FreedomRoads, which allowed Tumbleweed and Weissmann to keep their business open. Justice Cooper rejected every one of Tumbleweed and Weissmann’s baseless allegations of misconduct, finding that the “weight of the evidence shows that Lemonis was attempting to ‘save’ Tumbleweed, not have it fail . . .” Justice Cooper awarded Camping World, FreedomRoads, and Lemonis nearly $4.5M in attorneys’ fees and costs and awarded another $5M in attorneys’ fees and costs in favor of two other respondents, NBCUniversal and Machete Corporation. Judge Christopher Liu of the Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed Justice Cooper’s award and entered judgment against Weissmann and Tumbleweed on July 8, 2025.

Following Justice Cooper’s award, a recent public filing shows that Weissmann continued to accept customer orders for tiny homes and hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer deposits even though he knew Tumbleweed did not have the funds to keep operating the business. That filing shows that nearly a dozen customers trusted Weissmann with $250,000 in deposits on tiny home orders he never fulfilled, and as of recently, Weissmann had not paid his customers back.

In response to the award, Lemonis stated, “I hope this case is an example to people that there are consequences for pursuing false allegations. The truth matters. In this case, yet again, the truth won.”

This is the second fully litigated case arising out of The Profit. In the first (brought by the Estate of Precise Graphix), Arbitrator Hon. Ann I. Jones (Ret.) found “Marcus Lemonis, at all times, acted in good faith with regard to Precise Graphix” and awarded over $7 million to the defendants, including Lemonis and Camping World. Two other similar cases arising out of the show and brought by Fox met similar fates. In one, a New York state court sanctioned Fox and awarded his clients nothing. In another, in Illinois State Court, Fox voluntarily dismissed his clients’ claims against Lemonis after threats of sanctions for pursuing frivolous claims.

About Camping World Holdings, Inc.

Camping World Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Lincolnshire, IL, (together with its subsidiaries) is the world’s largest retailer of RVs and related products and services. Through Camping World and Good Sam brands, our vision is to build a business that makes RVing and other outdoor adventures fun and easy. We strive to build long-term value for our customers, employees, and stockholders by combining a unique and comprehensive assortment of RV products and services with a national network of RV dealerships, service centers and customer support centers along with the industry’s most extensive online presence and a highly trained and knowledgeable team of associates serving our customers, the RV lifestyle, and the communities in which we operate. We also believe that our Good Sam organization and family of highly specialized services and plans, including roadside assistance, protection plans and insurance, uniquely enables us to connect with our customers as stewards of an outdoor and recreational lifestyle. With RV sales and service locations in 44 states, Camping World has grown to become the prime destination for everything RV. For more information, visit www.CampingWorld.com.